Lindsay Mitchell

The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Monday, October 27, 2025

Same-old, same-old

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The Social Investment Agency is a creation of the National government. It kicked off in July 2024 and is headed by the former police commiss...
Friday, October 24, 2025

What an effective welfare system might look like

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For three decades following the 1938 introduction of most social security benefits (including Invalid, Sickness and Unemployment), ...
Monday, October 20, 2025

National's problem epitomised

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Why did National pick two former welfare-dependent sole mothers to be Ministers of Social Development? Because National is woke. They...
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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Who Moves from Welfare to Super?

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The National government is presiding over significant growth in benefit dependency, in both numbers and the length of duration people remain...
Sunday, October 05, 2025

National trying but nowhere near hard enough

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RNZ's headline reads : "Jobseeker: Parents earning more than $65k must support 18-19yo children" ...
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Saturday, October 04, 2025

A Confused Country

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New Zealand is a hopelessly confused country where people talk past each other, use the same words to mean different things, and can't d...
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Monday, September 22, 2025

The Future of Welfare in an Ethnically Changing Population

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 Asians will make-up a third of New Zealand's population by 2048. (View interactive image here ) For those worried about one in eight wo...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

The other side of the story

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 The Latu family first appeared at RNZ pleading poverty. Their household consists of mum, dad, eight children and two relatives...
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Lindsay Mitchell
Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.
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